The Goal of the Builders

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Excerpt from The Goal of the Builders: A Story of Trustees System Service One day, early in the year 1914, a young man in Birmingham, Alabama, had one of those wonderful thoughts that come, now and then, to intellects of genius, and which seem to be born into the world at opportune times to ease the strain of difficult living for the great mass of over-burdened men and women. This young man was John Charles Corcoran, one day to be known as the founder and guiding head of that remarkable company of workers whose business association prospers under the name Trustees System Service. He was born at Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, November 22, 1883. It was a little village on the Wisconsin River, and the life of this boy was that of a farmer lad, with all a farm's limitations in that early period of his country's history. His father, a small carpenter, had never gone to school a day in his life, but it was his ambition to give to each of his seven children a high school education. Little John Corcoran early learned all about the value of money. He never did have any quantity of it that he felt free to spend on the interests of childhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.